I Will Get Up Off Of, the second poetry collection of Simina Banu is a one-location film equivalent of a book, as it brilliantly unravels on the treadmill of life, yet moves freely through moments […]
Lavi Picu and I met more than thirty years ago. She was not an artist back then, but she was already into poetry. She’s always been writing. It’s only later on, when she got sick, […]
Shirley Shoub grew up as the second generation of an immigrant family in Montréal during the 40s and 50s. Her father was a factory worker in the clothing industry, and her mother worked hard to […]
Sincere and intimate, sentimental and sanguine, Sivan Slapak’s debut book Here is Still Here, is brought together as a collection of sure-footed short stories. Isabel, the wanderlustful protagonist, embarks on a journey from Montreal to […]
Labworks Publishing Inc. is a Canadian publishing company based in Montreal. They have established a model which includes self-publishing and traditional publishing focusing on empowering diverse authors to release their work to the public. We […]
Can contemporary poets maintain a sense of informality and inventiveness while expressing insight into the profound depths of the truth we so desperately yearn for? Can poetry reimagine sensibility while still being able to make […]
A Ramshackle Home is the inaugural work in Mihali’s extensive literary repertoire. Judith Weisz Woodsworth’s translation of Le Pays du fromage (2002) breathes new life into this novel, which has undergone its third transformation, originally […]
Eva Crocker grew up in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) and lives in Tiohti:áke (Montreal). Her debut novel All I Ask was long-listed for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story […]
Monique Polak, a prolific author with 33 books tailored for young readers, holds the prestigious Quebec Writers’ Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and YA Literature three times. Retired after an illustrious 35-year career […]
It’s midnight in Tiohtiá:ke /Montréal and Julie Tamiko Manning fills her kitchen with the smell of baked goods for tomorrow’s rehearsal. Umeboshi onigiri (rice balls) cool on a simple plate on an ordinary kitchen table […]
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